Burial's second album 'Untrue' has slipped ahead as the favourite to win this year's Mercury Music Prize, according to bookmakers William Hill. That can't be right, though, because that album's rubbish. Also, as Burial is an anonymous artist (he claims that not even his close friends and family know he makes music), who would collect the prize? Maybe this is a cunning ruse to keep the cash.
Anyway, a spokesman for William Hill told the BBC: "The two people we've seen real money for is Radiohead at 9/2 but Burial is very much the favourite at the moment at 3/1".